9 cops among 15 killed amid wave of Mexico attacks

FE Team | Published: October 30, 2010 00:00:00 | Updated: February 01, 2018 00:00:00

GUADALAJARA, Oct 29(Agencies): Unidentified gunmen ambushed a convoy of five police vehicles in the western Mexico state of Jalisco on Thursday, killing nine officers and leaving one missing, reports AP.
The 20 officers in the convoy were outnumbered by the attackers, who were riding in about ten sport utility vehicles, the Jalisco state public safety department said in a statement.
The ten officers who survived the attack fought an hours-long battle with the gunmen, and several were wounded. The attackers used grenades and assault rifles before fleeing into neighboring Michoacan state.
Michoacan is home to the violent La Familia cartel, which has been known to launch fierce attacks on police convoys. Jalisco authorities complained that Michoacan officials had not joined in the search for the attackers.
AFP adds from Mexico city: At least six people were shot dead in the capital and four factory workers were killed on the border, officials said Thursday, amid a string of particularly violent attacks, even for Mexico.
During the pre-dawn killings in Mexico City's notoriously crime-ridden Tepito neighborhood on Thursday, a gang opened fire on a group of men in front of a store.
"Six people died on the spot and another is seriously wounded in hospital," the police sources said. The victims, all in their twenties, died in an apparent dispute between criminal gangs.
In the north, four factory workers, including three women, were killed and 15 others injured as they traveled home from work early Monday near Ciudad Juarez, said prosecutor Jorge Gonzalez Nicolas.
Initial reports said five women had died after armed attackers ambushed three buses and began shooting indiscriminately inside, near the town of Caseta.
The prosecutor said one passenger had been abducted and that may have been the motivation for the attack.
In the past week, police recovered some 28 bodies from separate attacks near the Pacific beach resort of Acapulco, which officials blamed on disputes between the powerful Sinaloa gang and the Beltran Leyva cartel.